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      Labor Impacts of COVID-19 in U.S. Agriculture: Evidence from the Current Population Survey

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      Journal: Journal of Labor Research
      Publisher: Springer US
      Keywords: Agricultural workers, COVID-19, Employment, Current Population Survey

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          Early research hypothesized impacts of COVID-19 on agricultural workers, food supply, and rural health systems based on population characteristics from data collected preceding the pandemic. Trends confirmed a vulnerable workforce and limits to field sanitation, housing quality, and healthcare. Less is known about eventual, realized impacts. This article uses the Current Population Survey’s COVID-19 monthly core variables from May 2020 through September 2022 to document actual impacts. Summary statistics and statistical models for the probability of being unable to work reveal that 6 to 8% of agricultural workers were unable to work early in the pandemic and that impacts were disproportionately negative for Hispanics and those with children. An implication is that targeted policies based on vulnerabilities may minimize disparate impacts of a public health shock. Understanding the full impacts of COVID-19 on essential labor remains important for economics, public policy, and food systems in addition to public health.

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          Effects of the COVID-19 Recession on the US Labor Market: Occupation, Family, and Gender

          Stefania Albanesi, Jiyeon Kim (2021)
          The economic crisis associated with the emergence of the novel corona virus is unlike standard recessions. Demand for workers in high contact and inflexible service occupations has declined while parental supply of labor has been reduced by lack of access to reliable child care and in-person schooling options. This has led to a substantial and persistent drop in employment and labor force participation for women, who are typically less affected by recessions than men. We examine real-time data on employment, unemployment, labor force participation and gross job flows to document the impact of the pandemic by occupation, gender and family status. We also discuss the potential long-term implications of this crisis, including the role of automation in depressing the recovery of employment for the worst hit service occupations.
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            Migrant workers, essential work, and COVID‐19

            Alison Reid, Elena Ronda-Pérez, Marc B Schenker (2021)
            Globally, migrant and immigrant workers have borne the brunt of the COVID-19 pandemic as essential workers. They might be a Bulgarian worker at a meat processing plant in Germany, a Central American farmworker in the fields of California, or a Filipino worker at an aged-care facility in Australia. What they have in common is they are all essential workers who have worked throughout the coronavirus pandemic and have been infected with coronavirus at work. COVID-19 has highlighted the inequitable working conditions of these workers. In many instances, they are employed precariously, and so are ineligible for sick leave or social security, or COVID-19 special payments. If these are essential workers, they should get at least the same health and safety benefits of all nonessential workers. Improving the working and living conditions of migrant workers can and should be a positive outcome of the coronavirus pandemic.
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              Labor Issues in the Food Supply Chain Amid the COVID‐19 Pandemic

              Jeff Luckstead, Rodolfo M. Nayga, Heather Snell (2020)
              Abstract The impacts of COVID‐19 on labor in the food supply chain and on workers’ decisions to accept essential jobs are discussed. We then analyze surveys administered to low‐skilled domestic workers before and during the pandemic to assess respondents' attitudes toward food production, guest workers, immigration policy, and the government's response to COVID‐19. Results suggest the outbreak resulted in respondents, on average, shifting their view toward food being a national security issue and a higher degree of empathy for H‐2A workers. Regression analysis shows that gender, current agricultural workers, and information on COVID‐19 and agricultural field workers influenced respondents' answers.
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                Anita Alves Pena:
                ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2250-9556
                anita.pena@colostate.edu
                Journal
                Journal ID (nlm-ta): J Labor Res
                Journal ID (iso-abbrev): J Labor Res
                Title: Journal of Labor Research
                Publisher: Springer US (New York )
                ISSN (Print): 0195-3613
                ISSN (Electronic): 1936-4768
                Publication date (Electronic): 3 June 2023
                Pages: 1-12
                Affiliations
                GRID grid.47894.36, ISNI 0000 0004 1936 8083, Department of Economics and Intermountain Center for Agricultural Health and Safety, , Colorado State University, ; Fort Collins, CO USA
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                http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2250-9556
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                Publisher ID: 9345
                DOI: 10.1007/s12122-023-09345-6
                PMC ID: 10238777
                SO-VID: 211cd1f6-9407-4d0c-843c-d6e5e7037a02
                Copyright © © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2023. Springer Nature or its licensor (e.g. a society or other partner) holds exclusive rights to this article under a publishing agreement with the author(s) or other rightsholder(s); author self-archiving of the accepted manuscript version of this article is solely governed by the terms of such publishing agreement and applicable law.
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                This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.

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                Date accepted : 25 May 2023
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                Keywords: agricultural workers,covid-19,employment,current population survey
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                Keywords: agricultural workers, covid-19, employment, current population survey

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